AMAZON FISH: AQUACULTURE AND MANAGED FISHERIES FOR GLOBAL MARKETS
December 7th, 2022 at 12:30pm ET
A discussion of the challenges and opportunities for Amazon aquaculture and managed fisheries and how national and global demand for fish can help reduce pressure on Amazon forests. Opportunities for companies and investors to corner the market by addressing solutions to market development (volumes, logistics, transportation, safety, finance, money transfer, capacity, and more).
Toby McGrath
Earth Innovation Institute / UFOPA
Toby has worked for almost 30 years on the political ecology of Amazon development and conservation and more specifically on the evolution of smallholder settlement, land use and resource management. Within this broader field his work has focused on grassroots movements, the community-based management of floodplain fisheries and upland forests and on the integration of these informal management initiatives into formal policy and institutional arrangements for co-management of natural resources. For most of this time he has also been a professor at the Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos (NAEA) of the Federal University of Pará and more recently a professor in the Graduate Program in Society, Nature and Development of the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), where he teaches courses on the political ecology of Amazon development and conservation.
André Bugger
Netuno USA
Andre has been with Netuno for 6 years. He has worked in seafood consultancy for over 20 years, founding his own company and environmental NGO (IABS) in Brazil. He has managed international and local level plans, programs, projects and initiatives in the fisheries, aquaculture, and sustainable development fields, and has helped us achieve a sustainable label for the Tilapia farms in Brazil. He takes leads all our sustainability projects (FIPs, AIPs, certifications, farming and releasing), traceability efforts, labelling and packaging, helping us achieve even better standards for Food Quality and Safety. He has a Master’s degree in Aquaculture and MSC level 2 training.
Francisco Hidalgo Farina (Paco)
ACRIPAR Aquaculture Association of Rondônia
Francisco Hidalgo Farina is president of the Federation of Commercial and Business Associations of Rondônia; president of the Association of Fish Breeders of the State of Rondônia (ACRIPAR).
